Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2: "One may believe that one of the three scenarios for the future of Open Public Data that I discussed in my previous post is more likely than the other. The problem is, why? What actions, decisions, or conditions, are more likely to get us going along one road rather than the other? Can we go wrong on one count, and right on another? I believe we have hardly begun to figure that out."

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1: "We tend to assume that the opening up of public data will only produce positive outcomes for individuals, for society and the economy. But the opposite may be true. We should start thinking further ahead on the possible consequences of releasing public data, and how we can make sure they are mostly positive."

wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki: "Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities
Purpose
Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open resources in humanities research and teaching.
Possible Projects
A list of free/open source software tools for facilitating research and teaching in the humanities (including and linking to existing directories).
Maintaining a registry of collections of public domain and open access humanities resources on CKAN.
Guide to using structured text formats when publishing or making available textual databases or other resources.
Guide on best practices for using licenses and other legal tools.
Created: 2008-06-30"

DigitalHumanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

DigitalHumanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context: "The application aims to help to put European energy policy (including the 2020 energy targets) into context, building on the work we did at the Eurostat Hackday in London just before Christmas."

Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2

Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2: "To help with this I am going to use, some of the excellent work that Stuart Harrison at Lichfield District Council has done in this area, as examples. Take a look at the spending data part of their site: spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/. On the surface navigating your way around the site looking at council spend by type, subject, month, and supplier is the kind of experience a user would expect. Great for a website displaying information about a single council. "

Resource Discovery Taskforce

Resource Discovery Taskforce: "We realise that the scale and complexity of the RDTF Vision work requires a robust management framework. Over the next eight months we’ll be working closely with Mimas to design and implement that framework. In this post Joy Palmer from Mimas shares the approach and ethos in carrying forward this work with us, and she also provides an overview of the management framework activities which will be taking place between now and July 2011. – Andy McGregor."

eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment

eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment: "As promised last week, our draft metadata guidelines for the UK Resource Discovery Taskforce are now available for comment in JISCPress. The guidelines are intended to apply to UK libraries, museums and archives in the context of the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce activity.

The comment period will last two weeks from tomorrow and we have seeded JISCPress with a small number of questions (see below) about issues that we think are particularly worth addressing. Of course, we welcome comments on all aspects of the guidelines, not just where we have raised issues. (Note that you don't have to leave public comments in JISCPress if you don't want to - an email to me or Pete will suffice. Or you can leave a comment here.)

The guidelines recommend three approaches to exposing metadata (to be used individually or in combination), referred to as:

the community formats approach;
the RDF data approach;
the Linked Data approach."

Technical standards in education, Part 1: Introducing the educational standards

Technical standards in education, Part 1: Introducing the educational standards

Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns

Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns: "Summary: This article is the first part of a series on enabling cloud computing in industry solutions. This introduction covers basic cloud computing philosophy and industry solution knowledge. You will learn about the requirements and functions of three models to deliver industry solutions, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and how you can use best practices and patterns with the PaaS framework in particular to deploy and manage cloud computing solutions. The next articles in the series will discuss how cloud computing capabilities can be applied specifically to the chemical and petroleum and telecommunications domains."

Catalogablog: MapFAST

Catalogablog: MapFAST: "MapFAST is a mashup prototype that uses a Google Maps interface to present FAST Geographic authority records. The prototype presents a different way to look at subject access to bibliographic records. It also demonstrates a strength of the subject faceting approach of FAST over coordinated subject headings."

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content: "Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems."

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content

Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content: "Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems."

Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information

Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "We are only days away from releasing the first commercial version 1.00 of UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1]. To recap, UMBEL has two purposes, both aimed to promote the interoperability of Web-accessible content. First, it provides a general vocabulary of classes and predicates for describing domain ontologies and external datasets. Second, UMBEL is a coherent framework of 28,000 broad subjects and topics (the “reference concepts”), which can act as binding nodes for mapping relevant content."

hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » The Core of Bibliographic Description

hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » The Core of Bibliographic Description